Combined pocket-case and cigar-clipper



(No Model.)

A. P. YATES.

COMBINED POCKET CASE AND GIG-AR CLIPPER.

Patented Aug. 14,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE."

ARTHUR P. YATES, )F SYRACUSE, NE'VVYORK.

COMBINED POCKET-CASE AND CIGAR-CLIPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 283,055, dated August 14, 1883.

Application filed October 3.1882. (No model.) h

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR P. YATES, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the Case and Oigar-0lipper, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact de scription.

This invention consist-s, chiefly, in the combination of a pocket-case or match-safe, hav ing connected to it a V-shaped channel and a V-shaped cutter, and serving as a support and handle for the manipulation of said cutter in clipping the tip end of a cigar.

The invention also consists in certain pecu- Vice, as hereinafter fully explained, and specifically set forth in the claims. i

The invention is fully illustrated in the ac-. companying drawings, in which Figure l is a longitudinal section of my improved pocket matchsafe and cigar clippercombined. Fig. 2 is a transverse section on line as w, and Figs. 3 and 4 are views of the opposite edges of the exterior of the case.

Like letters of reference denote like all the figures.

A represents a pocket-case or matclrsafe,

parts in formed of elongated concave convex plates joined on their longitudinal edges, thereby forming a V-shaped channel, a, and a way, 0, respectively, 011 opposite edges of thecase, for the purpose hereinafter explained. Said case is provided with a suitable lid or cover, 0, which known methods. The interior of the case I divide into two compartments by. a longitudinal partition b, so as to exclude from the main portion or match-receptacle of the case the cigarclippings. The upper portion of the channel 0 is provided, in the two outer convergent sides, with an aperture, (1-,, of proper size to receive the tip end of. a cigar, and the lower end of said channel is open for the escape of the cigarclippings. Longitudinally in the channel 0 slides a'V-shaped cutter-blade, a, which is attached to a cap, B, arranged outside of and fitted to theupper end of the case A, so that the meeting edges of said cap and case will-abut and limit the movement of the cutter, said cap being sustained in an elevated position by means of expansive springst' attached to the top of the caseand interior of the cap, respectively, at the two edges thereof,

as shown in Fig. l of the drawings. Another V-shaped plate, attached t9 the cap-B and slidingfin the 'V-shaped way 0 of the case, serves, in conjunction withthe cntter a, to guide the cap B in its sliding movement. The

guide g is provided with a lug, h, which projects both inward and outward, the outward projection thereof passing through a vertical the outward projections of the lug with the upper end of the slots in the edge of the case, andwhen so checked the cutter a stands above the aperture (Z to allow the tip end of the eigar to be inserted therein. Then, by grasping the case between the thumb and little finger or ring-finger, and pressing with the other fingers on the top of cap B, the cutter a is forced through the tip end of the cigar and makes a V-shaped excision in the same, the clippings falling into the channel cand escaping through the aperture 6, hereinbefore described.

a is another V-shaped cutter-blade, which is fixed to andprojects upward from the top of the case A, and d is an eye or aperture in the sides of the cap 13- for the introduction of the end of the cigar to be clipped. A V-shaped way, a, is formed across the cap by two divergent plates,which fit closely to the sides of the The released cap B is then raised or thrown off from the end of the case by the springs until checked by the encounter of erture adjacent to and in range with the eye cl in the cap and for the same purpose, and having its divergent or wide end open and communicating with an aperture, (1 in the side of the cap for the escape of the cigar-clippings. By inserting the tip end of a cigar into the eye (1 and pressing down the cap B the cutter a 'is caused to penetrate the protruding end' of the cigar and make a V-shaped excision in the same in'the same manner as the cutter arranged on the edge of the case, as hereinbefore described. The object of this second cigar-clipper is to adapt the device for operating on cigars of different sizes andto make clippings of different forms, which may be effected by Y making the cutters of different shapes. Furthermore, the device is rendered more durable, lnasmuch as the extra cutter can be used after the other cutter is worn out or broken.

Having described my invention, what I claim 1. The combination,with the 'caseA, formed with V-shaped edges and provided with the aperture d in one of said edges, ot the cap B,

arranged outside of the case and fitted to-abut against the end thereof, and connected: with the case by the V-shaped cuttera and guide 9,

respectively, on opposite edges of the cap, sub-- stantially as described and shown.

2. The combination, with-the case A, of the i V-shaped cutter a, projecting from the end of said case, and the cap B, provided with the eyes (1 and 0?, respectively, at opposite sides, and with the V-shaped way 0, communicating at its wide end with the aperture 0?, substantially in the manner shown and set forth.

3. The combination of the case A, formed with the longitudinal V-shaped channel and way. a c, andprovided with the partition I),

apertures de, catch f, and'slot s, of the cap B, having connected to it the V-shaped cutter a, guide 9, and lug h, and the springs i, as specified' and shown.

' Intestimony whereof Ihave hereunto signed my name and affiXed my seal, in the presence of two attesting witnesses, at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the Stateof New York, this 30th day of September, 1882.

ARTHUR P. YATES. [L. s.] \Vitnesses:

WM. G. RAYMOND, E. H. GIBBS. 

